If you are hoping to study abroad in Costa Rica but currently lack the budget to do so, there are many scholarship opportunities available to help you accomplish your goal. Companies have a lot to gain from the perspectives of hardworking, creative students such as yourself, so they are often willing to offer financial rewards in exchange for your thoughts. In addition, cultural organizations and universities want to promote a love of learning, so if they can, they also seek to extend funding to students.

Here are a few scholarship search engines that will help you find the perfect scholarship:

Those who have decided to make Costa Rica their home for a few months, a year or even permanently soon realize the importance of establishing a base in the language which they encounter each day. Whether interactions be...

I hung up the phone in the Groups office of CPI and stared, wide-eyed, around the room. Oh no. It was my first day as a Grupos CPIchaperone, and I had just gotten off the phone with my boss who had given me a list of things to accomplish. (Actually, that was just an educated guess because I had spent the previous five minutes pretending to know exactly what she was saying while only catching about 2% of the conversation).

Clearly an important question and the answer very much depends on your linguistic goals. Most language immersion programs offer a 3 or 4 hour program on week days with some institutes extending classes with sessions of one or two additional hours daily. These extended programs are ideal for those students with specific objectives, whether those goals be personal or professional.